the value of agile bi in analyzing mission-critical healthcare info
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The Value of Agile Business Intelligence in Analyzing Mission Critical Healthcare Info
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About BCA
Cooperative of 36 community blood centers
Member centers provide 35% of the nation’s transfusion requirements
Focus on improving operations and business activities of member centers
Manages disaster response for all community blood centers
BCA
Regional Blood Centers
Hospitals
About LogiXML
Founded in 2000; focused on web-based BI
Headquartered in Mclean, VA High customer ratings in
Gartner 2011 BI Survey Over 700 customers
worldwide – including ISVs & SaaS companies
Challenge
Actionable Information to Improve Performance – improve data collection & benchmarking – information sharing for centers– address blood needs
Limited Resources– lean IT Staff– limited web development skills
Evaluated BI Solutions– some too static– per user fees
Solution: Collaborative Dashboard KPI’s and Metrics
– Benchmarking and Analytics– Real-time and Historical/Trending Information
Order Management – Quickly Spot Blood Shortages & Excess – Initiate Blood Transfers
Document Sharing and Discussion Forum– Role-based Security to Safeguard Information– Leverages full-text Microsoft Search
Serves 1,200+ users across the USA– Key Source of Blood Supply Data for HHS
Technical Profile
Collaborative BI Web Application: Logi Info – Analytics– Web Forms– Forum & Document Sharing
Accounting/ERP: Great Plains SL Database: SQL Server 2000
– Transactional – Datawarehouse
Data Feeds: Access, Excel, & CSV files– Data Files from Blood Centers
BCA Collaborative Dashboard
Demo
Menu of Apps & Analytics
Options
Center vs. Benchmark vs.
Historical Views
Budget vs. Actual
Collections
Automated vs. Manual
Collections
Collection Productivity
Collection Location
CollectionTrends
My Center vs. All
Collection by Centers
Collection Productivity
By Center Size
Daily Blood Supply
USA
BCA Region
My Center
BCA
Resource Sharing Web Form
Discussion Forum
Agile BI Development
BI App Studio
Transactional Data Sources(SQL, Excel, CSV, etc.)
BI Report Definitions
Web ServicesProvider
DataWarehouse
Web Brower
MetadataSummary Data
Raw Data
Internet orIntranet
Smartphone or TabletLogi
Engine
Results
For Blood Centers:– Improved Collection Productivity– Improved Collaboration and Best Practices Sharing
For USA Blood Supply:– Better Matching of Blood Needs– Improved Visibility Leading to More Action Time
For BCA: – Better Service to Blood Centers w/ Level Resources– Lower Operational and Administrative IT Costs
Future Plans
Dashboard 2.0– Updating look and feel as well menu flexibility
User-Driven Metrics & Analysis– User-Customizable Dashboard
Increased Real-time capabilities via web services BCA Mobile App